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- Pålsson, David, et al.
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Children's right to participation in Swedish child welfare : The extent, nature and determinants of child interviews during investigations
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect. - 0145-2134 .- 1873-7757.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Children's right to participation in child welfare decision-making is highlighted in law and research. However, there is a lack of comprehensive empirical research on how such participation is actually fulfilled.Objective: This article aims to describe and analyse the extent, nature and determinants of children's participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden as well as to discuss barriers to participation.Participants and settingThe dataset comprises a cohort of 2123 children investigated during 2022 across eight municipalities in Stockholm County, Sweden.Methods: The study is based on cross-sectional data where the responsible child welfare workers served as informant in a survey focusing child and case factors concerning 2123 children subject to child welfare investigations. The data is analysed by using descriptive and binary logistic regression analyses.Results: In approximately 75 % of the child welfare investigations, child welfare workers held interviews with the child (with or without parental presence) while individual child interviews were carried out in about 50 % of the cases. Multiple interviews (≥3) occurred in 14 % of the cases. Reasons for not interviewing children included finding interviews to be unnecessary, perceiving the child as too young, and reluctance by the child as to participation. Investigations involving older children and referrals related to abuse increased the odds for participation.Conclusions: The study suggests that more children are interviewed by child welfare authorities than found in previous studies, but that there still is a gap between the legislative intention to facilitate child participation and the actual state of child welfare practice.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-, et al.
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Licence Loss : Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries
- 2024
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Ingår i: Child & Family Social Work. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well-being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out-of-home care. In this article, we analyse how central inspectorates in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden deal with what can be conceived as the last supervisory measure, namely, the revocation of licences. The aim is to describe and analyse how frequently and why national inspectorates in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden withdraw residential care licences. The findings are based on an analysis of all available documented reports on revocation decisions between 2017 and 2021. The findings reveal that, between 2017 and 2021, there were 53 licence suspensions or revocations across the four countries, albeit with variations among the nations. Furthermore, the study shows that residential care units (RCUs) generally have a documented history of interactions with inspectorates. Revocation decisions were often attributed to several reasons, with safety, staff-related concerns and documentation deficiencies being the primary factors. The findings are discussed based on concepts and theory on regulation and supervision.
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- Pålsson, David, et al.
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Rancidity development in oat during industrial processing
- 2024
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Ingår i: LWT - Food Science and Technology. - 0023-6438. ; 204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To improve the shelf-life of food products rich in lipids, it is important to minimize the lipid oxidation that occurs during processing, since this oxidation not only decreases shelf-life but also induces off-flavors. To evaluate the oxidation of lipids in the production of one β-glucan-rich and one protein-rich food supplement made from oats (Avena sativa), the neutral and polar lipid profile, hexanal content, peroxide value, avenanthramides and lipase activity were measured at all production steps. The concentration of antioxidants in the form of avenanthramides was also investigated. This study shows that oat lipases were fully inactivated in the wet processing part of the processing line, and the total lipid content per dry weight increased with the progression of steps toward the oat protein product. Processing had no apparent effect on avenanthramide levels. Lipid oxidation markers increased in certain processing steps. The most significant increase in hexanal and peroxide values could be seen in the spray-drying step of the process, while a much smaller increase was seen for the drum-drying. The main conclusion is that the most important factor to prolong the shelf-life of the product is to minimize the oxidation in the drying step.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-, et al.
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Tvingande behandling : Några problem med att öka tvångsåtgärder i socialtjänstens arbete med kriminellt aktiva ungdomar
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sammanhållning eller splittring? Olikgörande av barn och unga i samtidens Sverige. - Stockholm : Jure. - 9789172239487 ; , s. 217-232
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under senare år har socialtjänstens arbete och ansvar i förhållande till ungdomar med normbrytande och kriminellt beteende diskuterats intensivt i den politiska och offentliga debatten. En vanlig åsikt är att socialtjänsten måste ageraskarpare och mer kraftfullt i förhållande till denna grupp. Debatten är starktpräglad av den dramatiska utvecklingen av gängrelaterad ungdomskriminalitet under det senaste decenniet. Det handlar i stor utsträckning om ungdomarmed invandrarbakgrund som lever i storstadsregionernas socio-ekonomiskt utsatta förorter och som agerar utifrån normativa strukturer som är främmandeför de flesta individer utanför dessa kretsar. Gemensamt för många av dessaungdomar är att de inte vill – eller inte kan – hitta en förankring i samhället.
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- Pålsson, David
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Uppföljningens olika roller - familjehemsföräldrars erfarenheter av socialtjänstens uppföljning.
- 2024
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 30:4, s. 795-816
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Foster care supervision is regarded as central to securing foster care quality. Studies show that foster care supervision is a heterogenic activity, but foster parents’ experiences of supervision have scarcely been examined. The article is part of a case study of six local authorities and their foster care supervision. The aim is to analyse how foster parents perceive the role of supervision. The empirical material is based on interviews with foster parents (n=18). Theoretically, foster care is analysed as a hybrid intervention in the borderline between family and welfare service, which opens up for different notions regarding how supervision should be performed. The analysis identifies several supervisory roles: the verifying role; the sympathising role; the assisting role; and the instructive role. The roles differ in terms of how supervision is executed and whether the emphasis is on support to foster parents or control of their performances. The discussion focuses on the prerequisites needed for supervision to impact the foster care service.
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- Andersson, Peter, 1980-, et al.
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Revitalizing residential care for children and youth. Cross-national trends and challenges. Whittaker K.J., Holmes, L., Del Valle J.F., & James, S. (red.) Oxford University Press: Oxford. (2023)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 30:2, s. 672-674
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Institutionsvård för barn och ungdomar (kollektiv vård och behandling dygnet runt) är en ofta ifrågasatt insats. Att föra samman barn med stora behov är förenat med risker och det finns ont om forskningsstudier som tydligt kan visa institutionsvårdens nytta för barns utveckling. Vårdformen präglas återkommande av skandaler och i Sverige rapporterades nyligen om våld och övergrepp vid Statens Institutionsstyrelses (SiS) särskilda ungdomshem. EU (Europeiska unionen) förordar “avinstitutionalisering” som överordnat mål och många länder, inklusive Sverige, prioriterar vård i familjehem framför institutioner. Samtidigt har institutionsvård en befäst position inom samhällsvård världen över. I Sverige är omkring vart fjärde barn i samhällsvård placerad vid ett HVB- eller SiS-hem. Svensk institutionsvård (SiS-hemmen undantagna) utförs på en löst sammanhållen marknad där vårdutbudet till stor del bestäms av privata aktörer.I antologin Revitalizing residential care for children and youth. Cross-national trends and challenges (Oxford University Press, 2023) diskuteras institutionsvård i sexton västländer (inklusive Argentina). Boken gör nedslag i så skilda länder som USA, Spanien, Israel, Finland och Tyskland (dessvärre ingår inte Sverige i antologin). Syftet med boken är att ge en bild av hur institutionsvård används i olika länder, men även att identifiera framgångsrika praktiker.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-, et al.
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A professional field? Educational attainments, gender and age among staff in Swedish residential care
- 2023
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Ingår i: Residential Treatment for Children & Youth. - 0886-571X .- 1541-0358. ; 40:4, s. 497-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we discuss residential staff in Sweden. Here, residential care is part of the municipal child welfare system, which covers services targeting juvenile delinquency as well as other residential care services. Children and young people placed in Swedish residential care have diverse needs, from mainly supportive needs to advanced behavioral problems, and the field consists of open and secure residential care units. There is limited knowledge about the staff working in residential care. This article helps to fill this knowledge gap by giving an overall picture of staff educational attainments, age and gender in Swedish residential care between the years of 2008–2020. To reason about staff qualifications, we use theoretical concepts from sociological theory on professions. Findings show that residential care in Sweden can be analyzed as a pre- professional field, dominated by staff with low levels of educa-tion. In addition, we show that the field is dominated by women – even if the proportion of men is higher than in other areas of social work – and that the majority of staff are between 30 and 64 years old. Some differences between open and secure residential care were found, the most notable concerning edu-cational levels and gender.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-
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Supervising a family or a service? Social worker approaches to foster care supervision in six Swedish authorities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In many countries, local supervision is the main activity to control foster care. In Sweden, the legislation stipulates that foster parents have a supervising social worker (SSW) and the foster child an assigned social worker (CSW). This article describes and analyses how child welfare authorities organize and social workers handle the supervision of foster care. The study is based on data (policy documents and 18 individual/group interviews with 43 managers/social workers) collected from six Swedish child welfare authorities. Analytically, the study assumes that the position of foster care between the private and the public spheres paves the way for different ideas regarding how to conduct supervision that can be broadly based on trust or control vis-à-vis foster homes. The findings show that supervision is differentiated and varies more between foster parents and children than between authorities. Supervision approaches are identified that can be analysed as being more or less trust-based (discreet and affirming) or control-based (compensating and interfering) towards foster parents and children, but overall trust-based approaches dominate. The approaches imply different levels of involvement in care and vary regarding emphasis on the private and the public aspects of fostering. The discussion focuses in particular on the potential impact of different supervision approaches on the foster care service.
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- Pålsson, David, 1986-, et al.
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Barnperspektiv och ekonomiskt bistånd : I vilken utsträckning kan generositet respektive restriktivitet ses som ett uttryck för skilda strategier? [Child perspective and social assistance: To what extent are generosity and restrictiveness expressions of different strategies?]
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 29:1, s. 47-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det ställs alltfler krav på svenska samhällsinstitutioner att i sitt beslutsfattande ta särskild hänsyn till barn. Inom socialtjänsten är ett uttryck för detta att begreppet barnperspektiv har blivit ett viktigt ledord. Ett verksamhetsområde som statliga myndigheter menar ska präglas av ett barnperspektiv är ekonomiskt bistånd. Det är emellertid inte självklart vad det innebär att inta ett barnperspektiv i en traditionellt vuxencentrerad verksamhet som ekonomiskt bistånd. Denna artikel bygger på fallstudier i sex kommuner med låg respektive hög beviljande- och generositetsgrad till barnfamiljer. I enlighet med nyinstitutionell teori analyseras begreppet barnperspektiv som en idé som är föremål för översättning på det lokala planet. Syftet är att beskriva och analysera arbetssätt och värderingar i förhållande till barnfamiljer samt om, och i så fall hur, kommuner med låga respektive höga utgifter skiljer sig åt. Det empiriska underlaget utgörs av kommunala riktlinjer, intervjuer (n=24) med socialtjänstföreträdare samt information från personakter (n=344). Studiens huvudsakliga resultat är att det förekommer en mångfald tolkningar av vad som utgör ett barnperspektiv inom ekonomiskt bistånd. Samtidigt fokuserar kommunernas organisation och arbetssätt i förvånansvärt liten utsträckning barn och det kan ifrågasättas om de strategier som likväl kan urskiljas faktiskt påverkar barns tillvaro. Vidare är de skillnader som syns mellan kommuner med hög respektive låg beviljande- och generositetsgrad överlag små. I diskussionen relateras resultatet till teori och tentativa förklaringar ges till de (om än små) skillnader som identifierats mellan kommunerna.
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